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Development projects to bring homes and jobs to outskirts of Abu Dhabi

The Dh4 billion Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City is 90 per cent complete and will open later this year, while construction is under way on a Dh2.6 billion Emirati housing neighbourhood near Abu Dhabi International Airport.

The Dh4 billion Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City is 90 per cent complete and will open soon. Ravindranath K / The National

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ABU DHABI // Two major development projects will bring thousands of homes and jobs to an underdeveloped area on the outskirts of the capital.

The Dh4 billion Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City is 90 per cent complete and will open soon, while construction is under way on a Dh2.5bn Emirati housing neighbourhood near Abu Dhabi International Airport. The first of the homes will be ready by 2019.

The 732-bed hospital in Al Mafraq area is billed as one of the most important healthcare developments in the region, with four towers and an array of buildings stretching across 300,000 square metres.

Developer Musanada said the hospital has 36 VIP units, 424 beds for post-surgery inpatients, 120 beds for mother and childcare, a 32-bed intensive care unit, a 30-bed ICU for cardiology and a 20-bed burns unit, among others.

The hospital, on which work ­began in 2011, means patients and emergency services will not have to travel into the city centre.

Mr Al Dhaheri said the project’s preliminary works consisted of land treatment, main roads, a drinking water system, rainwater drainage network, irrigation, firefighting, power cables and LPG networks to homes.

“The project was designed in view of future population growth in Madinat Zayed, on the outskirts of the city,” he said.

A tram facility to connect residents is a future goal, to be completed by about 2030.